DESCRIPTION: The trend toward patient-centered health care in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) is accelerating as these countries grapple with increasingly complex challenges in their health systems. With the broader shift from communicable to non-communicable disease burdens, more complex patient disease states with multi-morbidities, ageing populations, and the greater need for long-term chronic care, health systems are exploring patient-centered care as a way to control ballooning health care costs while preserving quality of care and patient preferences. Some possible solutions include greater coordination of multidisciplinary care programs, greater utilization of health information systems (electronic medical records), adoption of customized or personalized medicine, a greater emphasis on preventative care, use of HEOR in evidence-based decision-making, and greater linkage between points of care (pharmacies, laboratories, clinicians and hospitals). This forum will outline the current challenges facing the BRICS in moving toward greater “patient-centeredness” in their health care systems, and the progress that has been made.